... . B: Between a person and their environment: 1. Ruth and the amount of space and the amount of people in the apartment. 2. Walter and a low-class neighborhood, and wanting to have nicer things and being wealthier, instead of being a chauffer. 3. Lena and the apartment in the low-class neighborhood. She wants to move into a better neighborhood with a house that has a garden. C: Between a person and themselves: 1. Walter and himself, ... this book; an example is the experience of discrimination. The characters face decisions and have conflicts that are similar to those in this book. Though ...

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... to leave something material behind for his sons, which is brought into perspective by Willy's sad attempt to grow a garden. Willy's justification for suicide was to give his sons something he couldn't give them in life, and his cultivation of the garden represents his desire to leave something behind upon which they can build. When questioned about this play Arthur Miller said "I believe that ... are most illustrated: "I don't say he's a great man. Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human bein...

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... most blacks fought for in the early part of the century in the background of the play. The dreams of each of the characters are also defined and seem no different than most people's dreams: Lena dreams of a house and a garden, Beneatha dreams of becoming a doctor, Ruth dreams of having a place with a lot of windows and plenty of sunshine, Walter dreams of having money to start his own business, and Travis dreams of having his own room. Almost ... many people for too many years "and they are tired. Still, we can see that at some time, a time probably no longer remembered by the family (e...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , he is, at minimum, left at level ground. It is because, on the one hand, her dream when she first moved into that place in Chicago's Southside to buy a house, fix it up, and make herself a little garden in the backyard didn't happen (Hansberry 45). Or, as she says, "didn't none of it happen- (Hansberry 45). She became too busy and occupied rearing her ... then-young family. For her, the initial plan with her husband to save and only stay in that apartment (if one can ... Mama Younger has managed, after all, to fulfill her greater dream of the preservation of her family's values, ethic...

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... tries to teach this value to her family as she struggles to keep them together and functioning. Walter and Beneatha learn this lesson about family at the end of the play, when Walter must deal with the loss of the stolen insurance money and Benetha denies Walter as a brother. Even facing such trauma, they come together to reject Mr. Linder's racist overtures. They are still strong ... saying that if the audience hasn't learned to love, then it hasn't learned anything from the play. Since the play premiered in 1959 and the audience would have been entirely of almost entirely white, we ca...

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... "oddity in Grace-, forced to wear orthopedic shoes and read encyclopedias (219; ch.18). After the death of her mother and the miscarriage of her baby, Codi feared and yet desired to incorporate love into her life. She "hoped love would rescue her- and then hoped for "nothing at a! ll in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed- (117; ch.11). Running from her problems, she ... . Hallie's charitable excursion to Nicaragua placed her straight in the center of "the fields of her dreams- (120; ch.12). Her desire to help was directly proportional to the cries for agricultural assistance of...

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... enjoyed communicating with the young students. He was a unique man in the sense that he communicated not only through words, but also through touch. "In a way the voice and the hands, the stroking of the shoulders and the touching of the hair was a part of the schoolmaster's effort to carry a dream into the young minds." Wing was full of dreams, dreams he carried for himself and for the children. He held a true love for his ... students with the utmost concern for their well-being and their future. "Under the caress of his hands doubt and disbelief went out of the minds of the boys and ....

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• Grade Level: High School

... enjoyed communicating with the young students. He was a unique man in the sense that he communicated not only through words, but also through touch. "In a way the voice and the hands, the stroking of the shoulders and the touching of the hair was a part of the schoolmaster's effort to carry a dream into the young minds." Wing was full of dreams, dreams he carried for himself and for the children. He held a true love for his ... students with the utmost concern for their well-being and their future. "Under the caress of his hands doubt and disbelief went out of the minds of the boys and ....

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• Grade Level: High School